On 10/1/20 2:30 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
- /etc? 'cause you might end up saving clear text passwords there ... Oh! I found one below/etc/wpa_supplicant/. There might be others.
could also be clear-text : smtp account password(s), network-manager saves connection passwords there, system backup passwords, mysql also has debian-sys-maint password. and there are probably more clear-text examples in /etc/
apart from clear-text passwords, most encryption keys for daemons are stored in /etc.
-/var? Eh, /var/spool/ may have mail and print jobs, at least for some time./var/log/ may contain sensitive stuff ...
+ /var/lib is mostly data.. mysql data, dns data, tor data, etc. /var/backups .... -- and yes, swap can be encrypted too, very very easily.
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